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on August 6 2017 Shonda Hanley was at her home in Lafayette Louisiana when she heard the doorbell ring the doorbell
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rang and so I went to the door and it's these two men these two individuals essentially present themselves to be
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delivery men of some sort Shauna sees them says now is not a good time she goes to close the door on them they
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force themselves in with guns they started to scream to get the F on the floor and don't move they handcuffed
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me in front like this Shonda told the men that she had valuables jewelry cash and precious metals but they weren't
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interested they took Shonda and threw her in the back of a white van I'm hooded they
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hooded me as soon as I went into the van it was a van that didn't have the windows in the back and it was just a
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rubber mat without seats back there and laid me on the floor the van pulled away
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headed out of town with Shonda handcuffed in the back one of the guys sat on top of me you
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know so he stayed screaming at me he hit the gun to my head I was trying to pay attention to where
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we were I could feel when we picked up speed that we had made a turn I was like oh no my heart sunk I was like we're on
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an interstate or something Shonda says the men forced pills into her mouth and she started to drift off
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[Music] so this particular day I got out of work as I was traveling there was a wreck on
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the interstate I got stopped behind a white van I could kind of see the driver of the van starting to get nervous in
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the mirror he was looking at me he decided to get him to the shoulder and speed off
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I didn't sit right with me so I got in behind him I put my emergency lights sirens on
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then I hear sirens and I was like yeah yeah okay thank you God this is where the vehicle exited it's a
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dead end to a dirt road which had been mud because it just rained officer Chad Martin says the van got
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stuck in the mud he saw the two men exit the vehicle and take off running when you approach the van you've got your gun
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drawn yes sir I opened the rear door of the van and in the van what I thought was a mannequin moved
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scared me startled me so I jumped back and I shut the door I said oh my God she looked at me and
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I'll never forget this she said are you the real police are you the one that's going to kill me and he was like you're
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safe you're safe if not for Chad Martin oh I would be dead I can't even imagine but I know it wasn't going to be quick
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and Swift Shonda had been rescued but questions remained who were her kidnappers and why
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did they abduct her for Shonda however there was no mystery who was behind it